Hexagram 41: Sǔn (Decrease) · Takashima Ekidan

山泽损 · 第 41 卦 · 中文版

Mountain over Lake: Decrease. Decrease: There is sincerity; supreme good fortune...

Recorded Cases (10)

A friend came to me and said: A friend needs to borrow money urgently. Please divine the consequence (Nine at the beginning: Once the matter is finished, go quickly; no blame. Measure the decrease.)
A friend came and said: “On behalf of my elder brother, I monopolized the rice market in Osaka and s (Nine in the second place: It is favorable to remain steadfast. Campaigning brings misfortune. Do not decrease it; increase it.)
In the sixth year of Meiji, a prominent man was appointed governor of a certain prefecture and came (Nine in the second place: It is favorable to remain steadfast. Campaigning brings misfortune. Do not decrease it; increase it.)
In the twenty-fifth year of Meiji, in April, I was serving as president of the Hokkaido Coal Mine Ra (Six in the third place: If three travel together, one is diminished; if one travels alone, he gains a companion.)
In the twenty-fifth year of Meiji, while I was president of the Hokkaido Coal Company, the sales rou (Six in the third place: If three travel together, one is diminished; if one travels alone, he gains a companion.)
A friend came and asked me to divine whether his enterprise would succeed. The casting yielded Decre (Six in the third place: If three travel together, one is diminished; if one travels alone, he gains a companion.)
In January of the thirty-second year of Meiji, the Liberal Party cooperated with the government in t (Six in the third place: If three travel together, one is diminished; if one travels alone, he gains a companion.)
Mr. Sugita Sanenobu, a secretary in the Ministry of Public Works and an old acquaintance of mine, be (Six in the fourth place: Diminish his illness; make him hasten, and there will be joy. No blame.)
A certain chief manager of a wealthy Tokyo merchant family came and said: “I have been assigned by t (Six in the fifth place: Someone enriches him with ten sets of tortoise shells; he cannot refuse them. Supreme good fortune.)
In the ninth year of the Meiji era, the Nagasaki merchant Ōura Aki came with a certain Jindai and sa (Top nine: No diminution but increase; no blame. Correctness is auspicious. It is favorable to have somewhere to go; one gains ministers without a household.)

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